The stove that says: “When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart, ‘By the He bends over the fishĪnd slits its belly from anus to just below the collar. The way it stacks up, the way it repeats itself in a way that makes the meaningĪ half mile away Michael slams the King salmon onto the deck She tires not of life itself, just of all the time in it, Salmon with the word “salmon” (being sure to also include the species) so inĬase someone breaks into the boxes and starts eating the fish raw they will beĪware that what they are doing is eating uncooked coho and that that might not Only kosher surfaces (kosher surfaces, really?) and mark all boxes containing
Year she is on the boat and the other half she is fixing and recovering andįiling papers promising the federal government she will clean all salmon on How can she even think of having a child when half the Percent about catching fish and the rest of it filled in all the corners of Why didn’t her dad ever tell her this? That fishing was really only ten Left index finger from shaking fish from lines (she’s done this since her dadįirst put her to work on his boat at eight years old), and she has sharp linesĪround her eyes from too much time outside and too much work and too little sleepĪnd too much worrying about buyers and by-catch and frayed timing belts, andĪnd and…paperwork? No one told her when she bought the boat with John there Fishing does not make them much moneyĪnd Angela is thirty-five with a feeling like glass shards in the tendon of her Problems: Joel drinks too much and Angela feels herself getting too old. At sea there are problems, yes, obstacles, yes,īut not confusion at home there is much confusion. John is captain and Angela is first mate and at sea that Old, because even that was 40 years and thousands of deaths at sea ago, their Smiled widely while holding the beasts and later showed to their bored wives Gummed King salmon who had grown to 30, 40, 50 pounds, monstrous sizes, andĭrove the fisherman to take dozens of photos in which they –the fisherman. The placid emerald bay as it teemed with shrimp and iridescently scaled black Lumbering surfboards, returning years later to fish there again and marvel at Others were luckier, riding their boats on the aftershocks like giant, Now: the radiant white peaks thaw, sending crystalline waterĭown the banks over a tree line carved by a falling chunk of glacier thatĬaused the largest tsunami in history, one so big that the waves from it movedĪt six hundred miles per hour and flung anchored fishing boats miles out to sea Thirty million years the whole coast was a glacier but now is not and will
There is no other way to describe it, though there used to be: for Largest coastal mountain range in the world, hover like, like, well, like a Thirty miles in the distance the Fairweather Mountains, the
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